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Critical Storytelling and Diabolical Dialectics: Alexander Kluge and the Devil's Blind Spots
Ist Teil von
The Germanic review, 2010-10, Vol.85 (4), p.318-339
Ort / Verlag
Washington: Taylor & Francis Group
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
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Quelle
Taylor & Francis
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Does dialectical method induce clairvoyance or blindness? Alexander Kluge's Die Lücke, die der Teufel läßt probes this question by exploring the theoretical interests of the Frankfurt School on literary terrain. In his experimental storytelling, Kluge suggestively and playfully deploys the devil as an unlikely ally of enlightenment. This enables him to redress the relationship of enlightenment to contingency and its blind spots as well as investigate the spaces of human action at the beginning of the twenty-first century. A diabolical dialectics of the kind found in Kluge's short prose texts proves adequate to the spatiotemporal complexities of the new century's power constellations. In his transformation and expansion of the lessons of his Frankfurt teachers, Kluge reorganizes the architecture of Frankfurt School dialectics along spatial coordinates. This article demonstrates Kluge's narrative spatialization of dialectics by addressing Die Lücke, die der Teufel läßt's strategic constellations of devil tales, analyzing selected stories in detail and providing an account of Kluge's use of the chiasmus.